Thursday, February 03, 2005
A month later and I'm still nowhere
Warnanbool, the biggest town of the "Surf Coast", sucks in the rain. Sucks harder when all you'd planned was a brief glance of the town, maybe a supermarket stock up, bottle shop raid and a quick swim, and you end up wasting $20 on a room in a backpackers because bivvies are useless in a downpour. I have now realised the main reason good tents have vestibules is so there is some room to protect the inside of your sleeping quarters from the rain outside. Riding the Great Ocean Road from Geelong to Adelaide is a must for any serious cyclist, detouring by as much single trail as possible through the Otway Ranges adds a great but truly worthwile challenge. Getting caught in what could be called a cyclone sucks shit. Wasting more and more dollars on this is the ultimate caustic icing. Only thing that one could say is if the weather was normal I'd be riding somewhere near the SA/Vic border bitching about the heat and the endless headwind.
So anyway a quick run down of the ride:
0940 Sunday EDST: train to Geelong
1100 Sunday EDST: flex out of Geelong to Torquay, big wide shoulders on the road as we roll over the hills to the coast. At Torquay head west along trails next to the beach, fantastic weather, views, etc, etc.... trail ends at Bells Beach, crusie along Great Ocean Road (GOR) for short time until find mangement access trails through bush near Anglesea. Flex on fire trails with trailers, before ditching trailers in the bush and hitting a well worn downhill run.. fun. Back on the GOR to Lorne, turn right and hit the Otways, climb to start of Garvey track before setting up camp and then flexing to beach for a swim.
Monday: check out the waterfalls in the Lorne-Angahook state park before hitching up the trailers and starting the climb up the Garvey track. 500m later reach the top, head back down Wye river track, get to camp site just before dark. Will is fucked from trying to keep bike and bob under control with V-Brakes, Me very pleased with my discs.
Tuesday: down Wye Track to GOR, quick swim outside of Apollo Bay, then the sky drops its load all over us. Hangout, eat some chips and head of for Cape Otway, on way change plans and stay at backpackers rather than soaking in our Bivvies.
Wednesday: back to GOR, farewell to the rainforest. Head down red johanna track in attempt to avoid Lavers Hill, but at bottom accidently head back up Blue Johanna, whcih lands us back on GOR just in time to finish Lavers Hill Climb, nature takes a big dump again. Ride past 12 Apostles to Port Campell, book into backpackers, declare war on the Groovy Grapes tour group.
Tursday: sulking in Backpackers, offered lift to Warnabool with Sylvia and Jenze, jump aboard, continue sulking in Warnabool. Rain fucks off, walk down to beach, peruse the debris, help an old guy pull his battered dingy up the beach, sceptical if it will ever flaot again. Head back to backpackers and start sulking into the computer.
See ya,
So anyway a quick run down of the ride:
0940 Sunday EDST: train to Geelong
1100 Sunday EDST: flex out of Geelong to Torquay, big wide shoulders on the road as we roll over the hills to the coast. At Torquay head west along trails next to the beach, fantastic weather, views, etc, etc.... trail ends at Bells Beach, crusie along Great Ocean Road (GOR) for short time until find mangement access trails through bush near Anglesea. Flex on fire trails with trailers, before ditching trailers in the bush and hitting a well worn downhill run.. fun. Back on the GOR to Lorne, turn right and hit the Otways, climb to start of Garvey track before setting up camp and then flexing to beach for a swim.
Monday: check out the waterfalls in the Lorne-Angahook state park before hitching up the trailers and starting the climb up the Garvey track. 500m later reach the top, head back down Wye river track, get to camp site just before dark. Will is fucked from trying to keep bike and bob under control with V-Brakes, Me very pleased with my discs.
Tuesday: down Wye Track to GOR, quick swim outside of Apollo Bay, then the sky drops its load all over us. Hangout, eat some chips and head of for Cape Otway, on way change plans and stay at backpackers rather than soaking in our Bivvies.
Wednesday: back to GOR, farewell to the rainforest. Head down red johanna track in attempt to avoid Lavers Hill, but at bottom accidently head back up Blue Johanna, whcih lands us back on GOR just in time to finish Lavers Hill Climb, nature takes a big dump again. Ride past 12 Apostles to Port Campell, book into backpackers, declare war on the Groovy Grapes tour group.
Tursday: sulking in Backpackers, offered lift to Warnabool with Sylvia and Jenze, jump aboard, continue sulking in Warnabool. Rain fucks off, walk down to beach, peruse the debris, help an old guy pull his battered dingy up the beach, sceptical if it will ever flaot again. Head back to backpackers and start sulking into the computer.
See ya,
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silly man, you will die like all the other humble scum. tentless men suffer in all conditions.
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